Writer for Jesuit-Run “America” Magazine is Blaspheming Communist

America Magazine has long held a reputation for promoting hard left ideologies.

Whether it was Franciscan Friar Daniel Horan’s June 26, 2015 celebration of same-sex “marriage,” or the blasphemous advertisement (image on the right) published in America’s December 2005 issue which depicted a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary enveloped in a condom, this Jesuit-run publication is constantly pushing the envelope against the Magisterial teachings of the Church. And yet, despite America Magazine’s reputation for heterodoxy, this is the first time it has even been shown to be directly linked to out-right communism.

According to America’s website, Dean Dettloff is America’s Toronto Correspondent and a junior member of the Institute for Christian Studies.

In addition to this, Dettleoff is the co-host of a podcast bearing an extremely blasphemous logo called The Magnificast. The Magnificast bills itself as “a podcast exploring Christianity and the political left,” but the content of the podcasts are all about socialism and the fusion of communist ideologies with Christianity.

And it’s not as if America Magazine is unaware of the fact that they are employing a full-on communist as one of their writers. In November 2018, Dean Dettloff’s editor, Kevin Clarke tweeted about having “in-house socialists,” tagged Dettloff in the tweet, and Dettloff “checked in” as a “Catholic Socialist.”

Brief Refresher on Papal Condemnations of Socialism/Communism

Over the last 150 years, the Catholic Church, through Her visible head, has always only ever spoken in condemnation of socialism and communism. The following encyclicals fully condemn socialism and communism:

In January of 2017, Dettloff published an article for America Magazine in favor an Canada’s Bill C-16, which “would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to make it illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender identities or expressions.” The article was picked up by the heretical New Ways Ministry, which Dettloff calls an “awesome” organization.”

Complaining about its definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, Dettloff writes:

But the kudos are short-lived when in point 12 the manifesto immediately pivots to cement marriage heteronormatively, saying marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman, followed by a reduction of the marriage relationship to its procreative capacities (critiques of bourgeois family life notwithstanding).

A little further down in the article, Dettloff equally complains about the Manifesto’s desire to ban abortion:

Things are further problematized by the unequivocal and unnuanced stance on abortion in point 13. Combat sexism, the manifesto clearly states, but not by encouraging careful thought about the complexities of sexism, the complexities of biology, etc. Abortion politics in the culture wars are ugly, on both sides, but any baseline history of feminism should at least give pause to recognize why and under what circumstances abortion has been considered a liberating measure for women in a society where patriarchy and property rights over women and the family are necessarily connected.

Conclusion

As we stated in the beginning of the article, America Magazine has long held a reputation for heterodoxy, but never before has its connection to outright communism been so obvious. No Catholic publication has any business employing a reporter with any socialist sympathies, let alone an outright communist, and yet, there he is. And just like any loyal communist, he actively promotes immoral ideologies directly opposed to the Church’s teachings on abortion and human sexuality. Because of this, this publication has no place in Catholic parishes, chanceries, or seminaries. We strongly encourage you to contact your bishop with this article and ask him what steps he is going to take to protect the faithful in his diocese from a publication so closely aligned with the enemies of Christ.